Freely translated and illustrated by Wanda Gág.
New York, Coward-McCann, Inc., 1936
An unusually fine copy of this charming edition of the Brothers Grimm, created by Gág to help promote the reading of fairy tales which she felt served as a useful cautionary & educational device, particularly in comparison to the emerging Disney films such as Snow White that she felt were 'trivialized, sterilized, and sentimentalized' versions of the original stories. Author & critic Humbert Wolfe wrote of this book: 'From the very first page it was clear that Miss Gág was chopping away a perfect brushwood of clumsy phraseology to let in the light'.
First edition, first printing; 8vo; colour frontispiece and numerous black & white illustrations and vignettes by Wanda Gág, bookplate with related gift inscription to front pastedown; publisher's cloth; pictorial dust-jacket, a fine copy.
First edition, first printing; 8vo; colour frontispiece and numerous black & white illustrations and vignettes by Wanda Gág, bookplate with related gift inscription to front pastedown; publisher's cloth; pictorial dust-jacket, a fine copy.
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